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The President and His Steward Meet with a Calamity
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter from Napoleon's army. During the time John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Adams were living in London, Giusta married Mrs. Adams's maid. Antoine and his wife had managed the Adams' households from the time the Adamses returned to the United
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The White House Usher on the Role of Television
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly familiar symbol of the Presidency, flashed daily on millions and millions of TV screens everywhere."1J. B. West was Assistant Chief Usher at the White House from 1941 to 1957, and Chief Usher from 1957 to 1969. During the Eisenhower administration, West had an
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Three Ushers Foil an Assassin
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century. By the time Chester A. Arthur succeeded James A. Garfield in September 1881, Pendel had experienced the assassinations of both Lincoln and Garfield.Even before Arthur moved into the White House, a man who "seemed perfectly rational" came to the Executive
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White House Visitor Center
In July 2012, the National Park Service’s White House Visitor Center began undergoing a $12.6 million revitalization through a public-private partnership with the White House Historical Association. The Association's donation of $12.5 million for the project and operating endowment helped make this extraordinary public resource possible. David M. Rubenstein's gift of $5 million to the Association for the White House Visitor Center ensures ce
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Canadian State Visits to the White House
December 6, 1927: Governor General Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon — Canada’s governor general and wife Marie arrived at Union Station and were greeted by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Mrs. Clara Kellogg, and then inspected an honor guard of U.S. Marines. A cavalry troop with drawn sabers then escorted the visitors to the Canadian legation on Massachusetts Aven
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France in the White House: A Conversation on Historical Perspectives
This event will be held at the White House Historical Association. Arrive at the entrance at 748 Jackson Place, NW, Washington, D.C. for the symposium on May 4, 2017. May 4 Program 8:30am - 9:15am Registration and light French breakfast in Decatur House9:15am - 9:30am Break and transition to Carriage House9:30am - 9:45am WelcomeThe Honorable Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., Chairman of
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The White House and the Press
Read Digital EditionForeword: William SealeThe President, the Press, and Proximity: The Creation of the White House Press Center, James A. JacobsBeyond the Press Room: Reporting from the White House Grounds Photo EssayThe White House Remembered: Volume 2, Recollections by Presidents George H. W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton, Edited by Hugh SideyLincoln in His Shop: How a President Opened His Doors
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The Presidents and the Theatre
Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealeThe Man Who Came to Dinner at the White House: Alexander Woollcott Visits the Roosevelts, Mary Jo Binker The Curse of the Presidential Musical: Mr. President and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Amy HendersonFord's Theatre and the White House, William O'Brien The American Presidents and Shakespeare, Paul F. Boller Jr.Opera for the President: Superstars and Song in
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Special Spaces
Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealeA Special Space Lost and Found: Images of Abraham Lincoln's White House Stables, Clifford Krainik and Michele KrainikSecret Spaces at the White House? William SealeA Room of Their Own: The Solarium, Mary Jo BinkerCaroline Harrison's 1891 Music Room: The First Lady Makes the Green Room Her Own, Keith D. MacKayIn a White House Passageway: Evidence Survives
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Presidential Journeys
Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealePresident Grover Cleveland's Goodwill Tour of 1887, John H. White Jr."Off for the Ditch": Theodore and Edith Roosevelt Visit Panama in 1906, Catherine ForslundMotor Cars Come to the White House, Hillary MannionThe Presidents and the National Parks, Gary ScottA White House Exhibit on the National Parks, Lydia Tederick"A Journey into Nowhere": The Redirected Vacation of
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White House Kitchens & Cooking
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Presidential Horses
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